ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,311, issued on April 8, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for presenting event notifications, based on trending communications, on devices notwithstanding a user instruction to disable event notifications" was invented by Abubakkar Siddiq (Methuen, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for generating for presentation information about an event on a device that is in a mode of operation that prevents presentation of information about events. This may be accomplished by a media guidance application that receives a command, on a user device associated with a first ...